1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	19 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Competition phase	November 27, 1956
Medalists Elżbieta Krzesińska ( POL )   Willye White ( USA )   Nadeschda Chnykina ( URS )

The women's long jump at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was played on November 27, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 19 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Elżbieta Krzesińska from Poland . She won ahead of the Americans Willye White and Nadeschda Chnykina from the Soviet Union.

Swiss and Austrian athletes did not take part. Two German jumpers were able to qualify for the final. Erika Fisch came fourth there, Helga Hoffmann came tenth.

Existing records

World record	Elżbieta Krzesińska ( Poland )	6.35 m	Budapest , Hungary	20th August 1956
Olympic record	Yvette Williams ( New Zealand )	6.24 m	Helsinki Final , Finland	July 23, 1952

Conducting the competition

The athletes entered a qualifying round on November 27th. The required qualification distance was 5.70 m. All qualified jumpers took part in the final on the afternoon of the same day. The results achieved in the qualifying round were not included in the further course of the competition. In the final, each participant was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six jumpers could then make another three jumps.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The best results in the qualification and in the final are printed in bold.

Time schedule

November 27, 10 a.m .: Qualification
November 27, 4:05 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Melbourne time (UTC + 10)

qualification

Date: November 27, 1956, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	6.13 m	-	-	6.13 m
2	Willye White	United States	6.00 m	-	-	6.00 m
3	Nadezhda Chnykina	Soviet Union	5.95 m	-	-	5.95 m
4th	Valentina Schaprunowa	Soviet Union	5.86 m	-	-	5.86 m
5	Nancy Borwick	Australia	5.80 m	-	-	5.80 m
	Maria Kusion	Poland
7th	Marthe Lambert	France	5.79 m	-	-	5.79 m
	Beverly Weigel	New Zealand
9	Erika fish	Germany	5.78 m	-	-	5.78 m
10	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.76 m	-	-	5.76 m
11	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	5.73 m	-	-	5.73 m
12	Genowefa Minicka	Poland	5.72 m	-	-	5.72 m
13	Yoshie Takahashi	Japan	5.66 m	x	5.68 m	5.68 m
14th	Erica Willis	Australia	x	5.57 m	5.64 m	5.64 m
15th	Thelma Hopkins	Great Britain	5.56 m	5.13 m	5.59 m	5.59 m
16	Margaret Johnson	Australia	5.38 m	5.50 m	5.59 m	5.59 m
17th	Dorothy Kozak	Canada	5.40 m	5.41 m	5.50 m	5.50 m
18th	Margaret Matthews	United States	x	x	5.12 m	5.12 m
ogV	Sheila Hoskin	Great Britain	x	x	x	without space

final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	6.20 m	6.35 m OR	x	x	6.02 m	5.98 m	6.35 m	WRe / OR
2	Willye White	United States	5.96 m	5.91 m	6.06 m	5.95 m	5.96 m	6.09 m	6.09 m
3	Nadezhda Chnykina	Soviet Union	6.00 m	5.81 m	x	5.91 m	6.07 m	5.98 m	6.07 m
4th	Erika fish	Germany	5.89 m	5.62 m	5.75 m	5.63 m	5.49 m	x	5.89 m
5	Marthe Lambert	France	5.88 m	5.80 m	5.78 m	x	4.35 m	5.77 m	5.88 m
6th	Valentina Schaprunowa	Soviet Union	5.85 m	5.69 m	5.61 m	5.52 m	5.82 m	5.76 m	5.85 m
7th	Beverly Weigel	New Zealand	5.85 m	5.66 m	5.68 m	not in the final of the six best jumpers			5.85 m
8th	Nancy Borwick	Australia	5.71 m	5.82 m	5.47 m				5.82 m
9	Maria Kusion	Poland	5.74 m	5.72 m	5.79 m				5.79 m
10	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	5.73 m	5.70 m	5.58 m				5.73 m
11	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.66 m	5.45 m	5.63 m				5.66 m
12	Genowefa Minicka	Poland	x	5.64 m	5.62 m				5.64 m

Date: November 27, 1956, 4:05 p.m.

Twelve of the 19 participants made it to the final. With the first attempt at the final - 6.20 m - Elżbieta Krzesińska from Poland took the lead. In the second round she set her own world record with 6.35 m . The US jumper Willye White achieved 6.06 m with her third jump and was initially in second place.
The Soviet athlete Valentina Schaprunowa and the New Zealander Beverly Weigel had the best distance after three attempts each 5.85 m. For them it was about participating in the finals of the six best jumpers. Schaprunowa succeeded in doing so because of her second best distance compared to Weigel. However, only one centimeter decided the Soviet Russian's progress: 5.69 m compared to 5.68 m.
The battle for the medals continued excitingly in the last three attempts. Krzesińska had secured gold with her world record jump. The Soviet athlete Nadezhda Chnykina was third after the fourth lap with exactly six meters. In the fifth attempt, she managed to improve to 6.07 m, which brought her to second place in front of the American Willye White, who was now an inch behind. But in the last attempt White countered with 6.09 m. The silver and bronze medals were also awarded. In fourth place came the German Erika Fisch, who was handicapped due to an injury, with 5.89 m.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p.

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed October 10, 2017
• Official report p. 356f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
• Melbourne 1956 Official Olympic Film - Part 4 | Olympic History , range 4:42 min - 5:31 min, published on July 15, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 10, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
3. ↑ Official report p. 357, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
4. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 158